The Western Australian Pearling Industry is totally reliant on quotas of wild stock silver- or goldlip pearl oysters, Pinctada maxima. Any sustainable expansion of the Industry is unlikely to occur unless hatchery-propagated oysters become available as an alternative source to wild stock....

FIRTA funds were approved for the consultant services of Dr Donald Hancock; To attend and act as rapporteur of proceedings of the Symposium To receive, edit and forward participants' written contributions to the meeting in conjunction with the FAO Rome and...

Until recently, exploitation of North West Shelf multi-species fish stocks was mainly by the Taiwanese pair-trawl fishery, though other foreign vessels had also fished there. Australian finfish fishing in the region was conducted by a small number of line-fishing boats, working close to the mainland...

Studies on the breeding stock of the western rock lobster, Panulirus Cygnus George, were conducted to examine the appropriateness of the current measure of the abundance of the breeding stock. Research cruises, commercial monitoring and laboratory studies were undertaken between 1984 and 1988. Data...